Pukana Aloha is a beloved keepsake- for me being my family stories and genealogy. This blog is dedicated to Family History. I loved going with my dad as a child to talk story with our kupuna. Genealogy is such a blessing in my life. Besides serving as my research log, I'll share favorite tools, tips, sites, & things I learn.

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Isaac Bowers

My cousin, a genealogy buff on our Bowers side, posted a pic of an Isaac Bowers who lived in Orderville- another United Order community. (Our King side lived in Kingston which was a successful United Order community. Ended only because the rest of the church could not live the law of Consecration.)
I could never located an Isaac in our direct line, but came across a brief bio that named his parents as Maria Lay and James Bowers both born in 1811. Aha. p.764https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE102301
He is the nephew of our direct line John Bowers born in 1816.
I have no idea if John also lived in Orderville.
I will have to look into his biography.
I did come across some old tapes made by the church in the 70's on church history that gave a very arresting picture of Orderville. (Along with some other issues that I would never see them cover in such a way today-such as ERA, etc.)
Those tapes made me wonder about our Bowers connection to that community.